The following clip is taken from John Piper's sermon, the tragic cost of her cavernous thirst

preached on June 21, 2009, a sermon on the text where Jesus meets the woman at the

well in John 4, verses 16 to 26, here's what Pastor John had to say.

Some kind of bondage and slavery that drives her now.

She is locked and he's going to move in.

He's going to move in by showing her, you are thirsty, you are so thirsty.

Wake up, wake up.

You think it's all about men, you think it's all about romance, you think it's all about

being embraced and held, you think it's all about heaven, security, it's not about

any of that, it's about me, it's about water and not sexually with me, me, Messiah, Savior,

Prophet, water, your soul, your soul is made to drink deep, deep satisfaction from Jesus.

And if you're not, I know what you're doing, you're into a serial routine, probably for

most of you it's not sex, some of you it is for sure, just jumping from bed to bed, I think

that's it.

It goes so deep, just in the moment it's so, it's so water, it's so lie, and you know

it the next morning, and you get harder and harder, we're learning about Jesus here, compassion,

aggressive, surgical, relentless love, knows everything about us, isn't it good to be known,

painful as I'll get out and good to be known by somebody, this kind of person anyway,

he knows everything about you, absolutely everything, kinky stuff, he knows, hidden stuff from

your youth, he knows, financial stuff, he knows, thoughts, he knows, feelings, he knows,

midnight stuff, he knows, knows you completely, and he's the most important person in the universe,

do you know yourself, you're meeting yourself in this woman, the thirsts,

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